[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 16, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 57729-57730]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15256]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 121

[Docket No. FAA-2019-0360; Amdt. No. 121-392A]
RIN 2120-AL12


Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement; 
Correction

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), U.S. Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On June 24, 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 
published the final rule entitled Removal of Check Pilot Medical 
Certificate Requirement. In that final rule, the FAA made two errors in 
the amendatory instructions. This correction corrects those errors.

DATES: This correction is effective July 18, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joshua Jackson, Aviation Safety 
Inspector, Air Transportation Division, Flight Standards Service, 
Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW, 
Washington, DC 20591; telephone: 202-267-8166; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    As discussed in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM),\1\ the 
regulations establishing the requirements for flight instructors and 
check airmen in 14 CFR parts 121 and 135 are unclear regarding the 
medical certificate requirements when flight instructors or check 
airmen perform their duties in aircraft. The regulations indicate that 
flight instructors conducting flight training and check airmen 
administering checks in aircraft must hold a third-class medical 
certificate when not serving as a required flightcrew member. 
Elsewhere, however, the regulations also state that no medical 
certificate is required unless the flight instructor or check airman is 
serving as a required crewmember. Additionally, part 135 check pilots 
(aircraft) were held to different medical certification standards than 
part 121 check pilots and flight instructors and part 135 flight 
instructors.\2\
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    \1\ Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement 
notice of proposed rulemaking, 84 FR 25499 (Jun. 3, 2019).
    \2\ Specifically, Sec.  135.337(b)(5) states that a check airman 
(aircraft) must hold at least a third-class medical certificate 
unless serving as a required crewmember and the exception in Sec.  
135.337(e) that a check airman who does not hold the appropriate 
medical certificate may serve as a check airman, but not a required 
flightcrew member, applies only to check airmen (simulators). This 
differs from how the regulations treat part 121 check airmen and 
flight instructors and part 135 flight instructors.
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    On June 18, 2024, the FAA published a final rule in the Federal 
Register to resolve the discrepancy in the pertinent regulations by 
clarifying that flight instructors, check pilots, and check flight 
engineers must hold the appropriate medical certificate only when 
serving as required flightcrew members in an aircraft.\3\ The final 
rule also includes nonsubstantive nomenclature changes and reorganizes 
certain sections of parts 121 and 135.
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    \3\ Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement final 
rule, 89 FR 51415 (Jun. 18, 2024).
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    In publishing the final rule, the FAA made two inadvertent errors 
in the amendatory instructions of the

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regulatory text. This rule corrects those errors.

Correction

    In FR Doc. 2024-12621 appearing on page 51415 in the Federal 
Register of Tuesday, June 18, 2024, the following corrections are made:


Sec.  121.419  [Corrected]

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1. On page 51427, in the third column, in part 121, in amendment 16, 
the instruction ``a. Revising paragraphs (c) and (f); and'' is 
corrected to read ``a. Revising paragraphs (c) introductory text and 
(f); and''.

Appendix F to Part 121 [Corrected]

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2. On page 51429, in the first column, in part 121, in amendment 33, 
the instruction ``b. Revising paragraph II.(c)(2) in the table;'' is 
corrected to read ``b. Revising paragraph II.(c) in the table;''.

    Issued under the authority of 49 U.S.C. 106(f) in Washington, 
DC.
Brandon Roberts,
Executive Director, Office of Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 2024-15256 Filed 7-15-24; 8:45 am]
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